Saw a number of films at this theatre such Evil Under the Sun, All of Me, Turk 182, Fast Forward, Protocol, Sluggers Wife, I was there on the last day of operation for this theatre in spring of 1985 and the last movie I saw here before closing was Just One of the Guys.

“Rocky Horror” played there in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and at one time had one of the country’s longest-running engagements of the movie. The official NYC “shadowcast” performed there briefly in early 1978 after the Waverly in the Village stopped showing the movie; however, the New Yorker’s “uptown clientele” weren’t as supportive as the Village fans.
The New Yorker also hosted an ongoing run of “Shock Treatment,” the sequel to “Rocky Horror,” after its opening in late 1981.
The re-release of “Mary Poppins” was in summer 1980, and the movie hasn’t had a general reissue since then.

Just curious why the top header has it listed as 1 screen but the last photo in the photo section shows a picture that says A Walter Reade Twin Theatre. When was it twinned and how? Down the middle etc??

Can’t really make it out completely, but it reads something like “Closed visit our market at” such-and-such street “and Broadway” (the R in Broadway is missing from the marquee). Can’t make out the first two words on the last line of the marquee, but the line ends with “to the area.”

Hey robboehm… The Japanese Garden was located several blocks to the north of the New Yorker, near 96th Street, and would not be visible in the shot above. The marquee you are looking at belonged to the former Stoddard Theatre, which had been closed and converted into the Garden Supermarket in the 1950’s. It was located on the next block to the north of the New Yorker, between West 89th and West 90th Streets.

In the background of the picture is the marquee of the Garden. Would this have been the Japanese Garden on CT or a theatre not on the site. I reviewed all the theatres named Garden. The Japanese Garden was on upper Broadway and the only possible match.

Thanks. I also just remembered that they actually twinned the theater at some point. Remember it as a pretty slapdash job, like they just put in a wall dividing the auditorium and the seats, which were not realigned. At least, that’s how I remember it.

When did the New Yorker Theatre close? An exhibit of hand-lettered posters for films that played there is currently on display in the gallery off the lobby of the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. According to that, the New Yorker ran from 1960 to 1973. This has to be wrong. I moved to NYC in January 1977, and attended many films at the New Yorker for several years. Could they have meant 1983?